Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories to Be Read With the Lights on by Alfred Hitchcock (Editor) 3.92 avg rating â 249 ratings â published 1973 â 10 editions Want to Read savingâ¦ Error rating book.
drop - a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); he had a drop too much to drink; a drop of each sample was analyzed; there is not a drop of pity in that man; years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet--Kipling. drib, driblet.
More commonly known today as edema in the United States and oedema in the United Kingdom, dropsy is the accumulation of large amounts of excess fluid below the surface of the skin or in some cavity of the body.